! 015. 
THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
11* 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
HE tenth week of the contest at 
Storrs shows an increase of just 200 
eggs over the previous week’s pro¬ 
duction, the number being 1,521. Out of 
(lie 100 pens in the contest only three 
pens did not lay, and all of these were 
Leghorns, two of White and one of Buff 
Leghorns. Of the gain of 200 eggs this 
week, nearly all of it was made by the 
American breeds, the White Leghorns con¬ 
tributing only 31 eggs. The highest score 
for the week was made by a pen of White 
Wyandottes from Storrs Agricultural 
Station; they laid 38. Merritt M. Clark’s 
tarred Rocks were second with a score 
,’.f 37, and H. B. Hiller’s American Do¬ 
miniques were third with a record of 30. 
Springdale Farm’s Rhode Island Reds 
'aid 3o. A. P. Robinson’s pen of White 
Leghorns made the best record for that 
reed, scoring 33. Edward Cam’s White 
Wyandottes still hold first place in the 
total score, their 372 being 77 eggs ahead 
of any other pen. While a high position 
■n the record at this stage of the game is 
•'esirable, yet it does not by any means 
determine the final result; it’s the 
“stayer” that counts; the pen that keeps 
steadily at it. and here is where the Bog- 
horns make their gains; they lose very 
little time in broodiness, but keep shelling 
out eggs while the other breeds are think¬ 
ing of raising a family. But when a Leg¬ 
horn does sit and hatch out a brood of 
rhicks she makes an ideal mother, rarely 
stepping on a chick, and always alert and 
on the watch for enemies, with courage 
equal to a Game in defense of the brood. 
The week’s report follows : 
Barred Bocks, Week Total 
'ferritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 37 281 
Frank I,. Tuttle, Massachusetts.... 26 222 
Frauds I,. Lincoln. Connecticut. 20 130 
•Tides J. Francais. New York. 11 123 
storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 20 121 
storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 21 119 
0. A. Foster, California. 16 70 
White Bocks. 
'ibert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 13 62 
"ranford Farms, Massachusetts.... 1 8 
"-ranford Farms, Massachusetts.... 4 27 
"ran ford Farms, Massachusetts.... 9 15 
Hranfor<r Farms, Massachusetts.... 7 63 
Buff Bocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 24 139 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron. England . 29 167 
Ed. Cam, England . 28 372 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 26 207 
Neale Bros., Bhode Island. 20 246 
Mrs. J. D. Beek. Connecticut. 26 182 
Ftorrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 32 82 
storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn. 38 123 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut. 13 73 
.1. F. Byron, Connecticut. 29 208 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 16 191 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York.. 22 56 
Columbian Wyandottes, 
Merrythought Farm. Connecticut.... 25 15C 
Bhode Island Beds. 
Dr. J. C. Dingman, New York. 12 43 
Millview Poultry Farm, Vermont... 30 295 
Homer P. Demlng, Connecticut. 27 99 
fhas. 0. Polhemus, New York. 21 07 
IT. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 30 89 
John Backus, Vermont. 27 139 
W. H. Bumstead, Connecticut. 7 110 
I'inecrost Orchards, Massachusetts.. 32 214 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 26 194 
Colonial Farm. New Hampshire. 20 259 
A. B. Brundage. Connecticut. 23 55 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 18 172 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 13 71 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 18 77 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut. 11 89 
Springdale Farm, Connecticut. 35 132 
D. E. Warner, RhocTe Island. 14 61 
TI. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 18 197 
Albert B. Ford, Connecticut. 9 53 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn. 8 63 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 6 50 
American Dominiques. 
n. B. Hiller, Connecticut. SC 249 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 15 130 
Fcorge Bowles, Connecticut.. 14 162 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York . 12 192 
X. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 5 183 
Braeslde Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania 20 125 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 8 163 
Fecil Guernsey, New York. 6 80 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 7 214 
' has. N. St. John, New York. 10 137 
lay H. Ernlase, New York. 19 154 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 13 240 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 17 287 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff. Connecticut .. 95 
Windsweep Farm. Connecticut. 2 246 
•lames H. Lord. Massachusetts. 50 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 4 196 
Dictograph Farm, New York.. 11 52 
E. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 11 190 
(’has. Heigl, Ohio . 9 81 
Tom Barron, England . 29 119 
Edward Cam. England . 3 78 
Geo. M. McMillan, Missouri. 3 44 
Wm. H. Lyon, New York. 4 167 
TIappieh & Danks. New York. 22 149 
A. P. Robinson, New York. 33 243 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York.... 11 233 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 10 03 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 15 143 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 10 149 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 29 120 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 3 51 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 12 127 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 5 193 
s. J. Rogers, New York. 10 119 
Stoneleign Poultry Farm, Penn. 13 129 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut.. 11 188 
Toth Bros.. Connecticut. 16 138 
•Tames N. Thomas, New York. 20 187 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 9 116 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 
2 
20 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farms, Michigan.. 
15 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 
7 
71 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 
15 
181 
Silver Campines. 
Cneowa Poultry Yards, Coun....... 
24 
97 
Lewis E. Prickett, Connecticut. 
11 
15 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey...... 4 24 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland . 9 21 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Peunock. Florida. 7 23 
Ohed S. Knight, Rhode Island. 13 119 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 4 5 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Penn.... 8 12 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 10 70 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Hens With Colds. 
HAVE 40 Barred Plymouth Rock 
pullets, a few of them just beginning 
to lay. A few days ago they began 
showing symptoms of sickness, sneezing 
and shaking their heads, making a shrill 
noise and acting as. if they were trying 
to swallow something and could not. A 
few have refused to eat, but have been 
fed with a spoon and doctored the best 
I know. They appear somewhat better 
and are eating a little now. I keep them 
in an underground henhouse, stone wall 
on three sides; muslin curtain in one 
window. Does not seem to be damp; 
have kept hens for 25 years, but never 
had anything like this before. G. E. 
There are few underground henhouses 
with stone walls upon three sides and 
only one muslin covered opening that 
would not be too damp to be healthful. 
If one side of such an underground com¬ 
partment could be open above the level 
of the outside ground, the chances are 
that it would be a very much more suit¬ 
able place for fowls. Your hens show 
symptoms of ordinary colds, which may 
he treated by administering a few drops 
of kerosene oil injected into each nostril 
from the nozzle of a small oil can, but, 
unless they are kept in dry, well ventil¬ 
ated, quarters, there is little use of treat¬ 
ing them. m. B. D. 
Poor Laying. 
HAVE 70 purebred S. C. White Leg¬ 
horn chickens. Fourteen are hens 
from one to two years old and the 
others were hatched May 6, 1914. The 
hens have not laid an egg since August. 
The pullets have not laid an egg. I fed 
them chick feed and stale bread crumbs 
until they were large enough to eat whole 
oats. Chickens are on free range. The 
old hens look the picture of health and 
are fat. The pullets are red around their 
eyes, but their combs do not grow much ; 
not more than three or four of them have 
combs that have developed much. The 
hens and pullets molted last Fall. They 
are kept in large henhouse with screen 
wire front facing southeast. A heavy 
curtain let down over screen at night. 
Do hens get too fat to lay? When should 
Leghorn pullets be hatched to prevent 
Fall molting? n. p. j. 
Virginia. 
Perhaps hens get too fat to lay, but I 
think they seldom do; I am very sure, on 
the other hand, that many hens that are 
expected to lay are too poor to spare any 
food for egg production. I judge from 
what you write that oats have formed the 
greater part of your fowls’ rations and 
meat a very small part. Oats are excel¬ 
lent hut they must not be fed to the ex¬ 
clusion of the more highly nitrogenous 
foods, like meat meal, beef scrap, skim- 
milk, wheat bran and middlings, gluten 
feed, etc. If your pullets’ combs have 
not developed as they should, it is pretty 
good evidence that they were not fed 
enough of the proper foods to bring them 
to early maturity; perhaps you depended 
chiefly upon oats and what they could 
pick up on range. This may be profit¬ 
able in the long run because of its cheap¬ 
ness, but it will not produce Fall and 
Winter layers. Pullets that are to lay 
in the Fall and through the Winter must 
be fed liberally from the start, and con¬ 
tinuously. One of the meat products or 
skim-milk, preferably soured and lop- 
pered, or both should form a generous 
portion of the ration and wheat and the 
wheat products the base. Oats and corn 
should supplement these and when bal¬ 
anced by the other foods high in protein 
may be fed liberally. Y T ou will note, 
from time to time, formulas for growing 
chicks and for layers in these columns. 
A comparison with your own methods of 
feeding will show you where yours are 
at fault. February and March pullets 
that are pushed to early maturity in the 
North are apt to lay a few eggs in the 
Fall and molt; I have never known April 
and May chicks to do so. M. b. d. 
Hens With Catarrh. 
I HAVE about 30 hens and pullets with 
five cockerels; eight are Silver Cam- 
pines from two different breeders; the 
rest are Buff Rocks from three different 
breeders. The first snowfall in Novem¬ 
ber they were as lusty a lot as one could 
wish to see; they ran out most of the day 
while it snowed, sheltering themselves 
under a hedge. The next day I detected 
sneezing in a few of them; put a bit of 
kerosene in their drinking and most of 
the sneezing ceased. Two weeks later, a 
cold raw windy day they were running 
out, and again they sneezed, and they 
have kept it up most of the time since. 
I put permanganate of potash in drink¬ 
ing water. I am now using a roup cure; 
very old hens are nearly free from trou¬ 
ble now, but the three Buff cockerels run 
at the nose and breathe hard at 
night; no eye trouble, no odor. They 
do not appear sick but eat and 
drink as usual, hut have stopped laying 
entirely. Is this roup or cold? If cured 
will they be fit for breeding next Spring? 
New York. f. m. w. 
This trouble is probably not roup, but 
rather catarrh induced by exposure and 
affecting the respiratory organs as far as 
the bronchial tubes; in other words, a 
catarrhal bronchitis. The first thing to 
do, if not already done, is to remove the 
affected birds to warm, dry, quarters, 
where they will have plenty of fresh air 
but will not he exposed to drafts. Feed 
upon nourishing food and give each fowl 
three or four grains daily of the follow¬ 
ing drugs thoroughly pulverized and 
mixed: Gentian root, four drams; Gin¬ 
ger, four drams; sulphate of iron, two 
drams; hyposulphite of sodium one 
dram; salicylate of sodium one dram. 
If there is running at the nostrils, 
a few drops of kerosene, either alone 
or mixed with an equal quantity of olive 
oil, may be injected into them from a 
small nozzled oil can once daily. Local 
treatment should not be too vigorous or 
long continued lest the irritation from it 
prove more injurious than the treatment 
beneficial. It will require time for the 
fowls to recover from their indisposition, 
but, if it is not too severe, they will prob¬ 
ably do so. Any birds that are long 
sick and show evidences of having been 
weakened by their trouble should not be 
used in the breeding pen ; if they recover 
promptly and are evidently of full vigor, 
they need not be discarded as breeders. 
Fowls of little vitality are far more sub¬ 
ject to such troubles and this lessened re¬ 
sistance to disease should not be increased 
and perpetuated by breeding from weak¬ 
ened stock. The administration of the 
various “roup cures” and “panaceas” 
will probably be of little benefit. 
M. B. D. 
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